A RARE FAMILLE ROSE PEAR-SHAPED CIDER JUG in the Meissen style with bracket handle, moulded with a bearded old man's mask below the large lip, the body enamelled with birds perched on fruiting lychee branches and large peonies issuing from blue rockwork (some rim and handle restoration), Qianlong | Christie's

Lot 22

A RARE FAMILLE ROSE PEAR-SHAPED CIDER JUG in the Meissen style with bracket handle, moulded with a bearded old man's mask below the large lip, the body enamelled with birds perched on fruiting lychee branches and large peonies issuing from blue rockwork (some rim and handle restoration), Qianlong

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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE PEAR-SHAPED CIDER JUG in the Meissen style with bracket handle, moulded with a bearded old man's mask below the large lip, the body enamelled with birds perched on fruiting lychee branches and large peonies issuing from blue rockwork (some rim and handle restoration), Qianlong
34.5cm. high

Lot Essay

For a similar pair of Imari ewers in the C. T. Loo Collection, Paris, cf. M. Beurdeley, op. cit., p.113, pl.XXI

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